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Hi All,
have had a couple of goes with the dry enzyme powder and with the experience from the first brew and some ideas from this forum got the message loud and clear that you had to wait until the final gravity is 1000.
No explosions as I used pet bottles but pretty exciting when you opened the bottle!!!
Put down a coopers recipe sparkling ale with improzyme liquid (first time user) this time and after two weeks it appears to be stuck at 1006.
To bottle or not to bottle that is the question?
Many thanks,
dasher

I don't think beer usually gets down to 1000?
I don't know much about beer but from the reading I've done on here beers are usually from 1006 and upwards depending on how much malt extra malt you have in it!
1006 sounds reasonable for a FG.
as they always say on this forum..if you get the same reading twice in 24 hours ...Bottle!

when dealing with dry enzymes you need to be real careful because they can get all the way down to 1.000

Or lower- so I've heard, anyway.

sorry! I didn't know that!

It's a pretty common misconception that you have to wait until you get to a particular gravity reading before bottling. Every brew will be different, and will finish at a different spec. gravity. It's that fact that the specific gravity is stable that indicates that the fermentation is complete.

You just have to be particularly careful with the dry enzyme as it can take much longer for you to reach completion. If you search, there's a link on here somewhere to a guy that did experiments charting specific gravity over time with and without the enzyme.